I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.